Bayberry Bar Soap

Bayberry bar soap has the smell of an old-fashioned holiday season, the kind that was tradition before “winter berry” candles existed. If you remember a certain candle from a specific relative’s house every December, this is probably the one. It has the sharp, waxy, green bayberry note with soft woodsy undertones, without leaning into the artificial fruit-punch sweetness many modern “bayberry” scents have drifted toward.

This bar is cold-processed and built on our signature palm-free oil blend. This soap is built on a foundation of stable, gentle lather rather than a stripping one. Karen formulates each Me&T recipe as she would a compounding project: as a licensed pharmacist and HSCG-certified advanced soapmaker, she takes into account the properties of the materials and their suitability for the skin before the first batch is poured, rather than after the fact.

Bayberry is 100% vegan and cruelty-free with no animal fats and no animal testing anywhere in the process. It’s colored with natural, cosmetic-grade colorants for a soft, muted green-gold that does not bleed into your washcloth or bathtub.

As with every bar in the Holiday Soap Collection, Bayberry is made in small batches and fully cured before it ships, which means a longer-lasting bar and a scent that holds up wash after wash instead of fading fast.

Bayberry tends to be the pick for anyone buying for a parent, grandparent, or traditionalist on their list, and it reads classic and grounded next to the sweeter scents in the collection like Frosted Sugar Plum or Holiday Fudge. Stock up early; traditional scents like this one tend to sell through the collection first.